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Tastelessly showy.
loud
flash
cheap
gaudy
flashy
garish
tawdry
tacky
brassy
trashy
tasteless
Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
gilded
specious
insincere
Synonyms
Examples for "
gilded
"
gilded
specious
Examples for "
gilded
"
1
At eight in the morning the sun already
gilded
the vast opening.
2
I have all the philosophers in my library
gilded
on the edges.
3
The brightest of sunshine
gilded
the spires and steeples of the village.
4
The
gilded
Swiss clock in the drawing-room was striking its tiny gong.
5
The morning sun
gilded
the new lapis collar that she was wearing.
1
It was
specious
-
which
is
the best that can be said for it.
2
He would be put on the sacrificial altar for that
specious
truth.
3
His demand of the supreme authority was evaded on some
specious
pretext.
4
Drawing
specious
connections isn't just for musicians, but music journos as well.
5
His reasoning is
specious
,
but beneath the sophistry there is a plan.
Woman.
woman
adult female
1
There is not a
meretricious
or humiliating book in the whole collection.
2
Gloriani's statues were florid and
meretricious
;
they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
3
The
meretricious
melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
4
The over-rated, overpaid, and most
meretricious
painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
5
It's a
meretricious
parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
6
Her great effort to keep herself young had led to a
meretricious
childishness.
7
But to-night her now hateful,
meretricious
image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.
8
It is like all your
poetry
-
merely
meretricious
glitter; there is no heart in it.
9
In the law courts the same smart epigrams, the same
meretricious
style were required.
10
She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about
meretricious
manners.
11
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of
meretricious
attempts to catch or win popular favor.
12
I'm afraid writers are apt to use stock phrases in the same
meretricious
fashion.
13
That
meretricious
splendour was the only one to be met in Mrs Verloc's visions.
14
Not a hint of
meretricious
emphasis on their luster and yet they fairly flame.
15
But then it looked insincere,
meretricious
,
affected, and always haggard.
16
The home circle is select and chaste-thepromiscuous intermingling with the world
meretricious
and contaminating.
meretricious
meretricious charms
meretricious ornament
meretricious aid
meretricious arts
meretricious effect